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If your feet are giving you trouble, locate your problem in this e-handbook and try the recommended natural remedies to help put your feet back on the path to comfort and wellness.

Chapters in this handy reference guide include:

Living with Arthritis

Beating Athlete’s Foot

Healing and Preventing Blisters

Keeping Calluses under Control

Soothing Dry, Cracked Soles

Curing Itchy Feet

Sweet Relief for Sore, Achy Feet

With the help of this handy reference guide you can turn your tired, aching feet into happy, healthy feet. 36 pages.

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Achieving great-looking hair is not difficult, nor does it need to be expensive. Learning to make your own hair-care products can save you a bundle of money.

This e-handbook has a guide to help you purchase natural ingredients, grow your own herbs, create a home spa experience as well as recipes for shampoos, conditioners, scalp treatments and coloring. 36 pages.

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The Herb Companion is proud to introduce an extraordinary new collection of e-books from the publisher of Herbs for Health. Each e-book features a digital collection of articles containing everything you need to know to bring the power of herbs into your life, safely and effectively. Learn the secrets to healthy weight-loss; discover how to strengthen your immune system naturally; and more. Finally Herbs for Health's most helpful and informative articles can be purchased together in these easy-to-navigate e-books.

The Herb Companion is proud to introduce an extraordinary new collection of e-books from the publisher of Herbs for Health. Each e-book features a digital collection of articles containing everything you need to know to bring the power of herbs into your life, safely and effectively. Learn the secrets to healthy weight-loss; discover how to strengthen your immune system naturally; and more. Finally Herbs for Health’s most helpful and informative articles can be purchased together in these easy-to-navigate e-books.

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More and more people are turning to wood as a primary or secondary heating fuel, and as this number increases, so too does the sophistication of our wood stoves/furnaces, and our knowledge of wood heat.

This e-handbook outlines various ways to speed the seasoning process — from no-cost methods of stacking the wood properly to building a low-cost, pole-built storage shed. Chapters include:

How Much Wood?

The Construction Process

Types of Metal Roofing

Alternate Roofing

Enclosing the Shed

Stacking the Wood

Properly seasoned wood is as important a part of the woodburning process as a well-constructed stove or a safe installation. 36 pages.

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The farm or homestead fishpond is slowly gaining recognition for being a multi-valued asset. It can provide fish and recreation for the entire family. It can also be a source of water for irrigating the garden, the orchard, watering cattle and even water for firefighting in case of an emergency.

This e-handbook provides diagrams to convert natural ponds into productive fish ponds and how to find and build man-made fish ponds. Chapters include:

Selecting the Site

Clearing the Pond Site

Using Existing Ponds or Small Lakes to Build a Fishpond

Types of Fishponds

Constructing New Fishponds

A well planned and constructed fishpond will pay for itself in time It will add to the economy by furnishing food for the family, as well as providing recreation. 32 pages.

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In recent years dozens of commercial smokers have appeared on the market, most of them expensive, hard to clean, and none of them more efficient than a homemade smoker.

This e-handbook teaches you how to make a simple smoke box or barrel or a strong, tight smokehouse that will endure for decades. It also discusses the three basic ways of curing and/or smoking meats, fish, and poultry, hot smoking, cold smoking, and curing and smoking.

Why not build your own smokehouse or pit and start enjoying the savory, succulent taste of smoked meats? 36 pages.

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Why, you may be asking yourself, would anyone want to build a bat house? Bats rid the world of billions of insect pests every night, and they act as pollinators and seed dispersers for many different plants. An excellent way to make neighborhoods attractive to bats is to provide artificial habitats to augment the decreasing natural ones.

This e-handbook helps you understand these winged creatures, their habitat and how you can help. Chapters include:

The Benefits of Bats

Bats and Human Health

Attracting Bats

Bat-Proofing Your Home

Bat House Construction

Bat House Plans

This important resource dispells the myths about bats and shows you how you can give back to these creatures that do so much for us. 36 pages.

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A cold frame is nothing more than a box of boards set on the ground outdoors and topped with a second-hand storm window, but its simplicity belies its usefulness. In addition to expanding the length of the growing season, a cold frame can increase the types of produce you can grow.

Involving a day's work with readily available materials and simple hand tools, construction of a cold frame is quick and economical. This handy reference shows you how to get started. Chapters include:

Selecting a Site

Foundation

Materials

Preparations

Assembly

Using the Cold Frame

Soil For the Cold Frame

With the help of this e-handbook, you can build your own cold frame and start enjoying an extended gardening season. 36 pages.

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Do you want to save on what could be wasted garden surpluses and lower food costs? Try storing food the natural way, in storage rooms and root cellars, in pits and trenches, or even in the garden.

This e-handbook shows you where and how to build an underground root cellar, cold storage in you basement and pits or trenches in your garden. It also has important information on the proper storage for a variety of fruits and vegetables. Why not keep large quantities of food that is cheaper, less work, and far more energy-efficient than canning or freezing? 29 pages.

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Birds delight, amuse, and confound us with their antics, habits, and avian operas, and they are extremely beneficial as well. They eat weed seeds, wood-boring ants, gnats, flies, agricultural pests and more. Birds need water, food and safe shelter where they can raise their young.

This informative e-handbook helps you determine what type of birdfeeders and seed to use in order to attract a variety of birds. Chapters include:

Finding the Best Location

10 Tips for Building the Best Bird Feeders

Platform Feeder

Tin Can Feeder

Suet Feeder

Hummingbird Feeder

Suet Log Feeder

Also included is a list of materials, tools and illustrations to help make your backyard a bird sanctuary. 36 pages.

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Gardeners who compost save money in many ways. Compost contains nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, plus trace nutrients that plants need, so it reduces the need for purchased fertilizer.

The plans in this e-handbook offers instructions on how to build easy compost containers and how to use compost. Chapters include:

Plans for Compost Bins and Boxes

Selecting the Compost Pile Location

Ingredients for Compost

Stuff to Keep Out of Compost Pile

Composting Without a Pile

With the help of this handy resource, you can start your own compost pile. Your plants will love you for it! 36 pages.

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Next to the wheel and the plow, the fence ranks high as a major landmark in the progress of civilization. Historically, it was such a simple tool and yet it gave man the enormous capability of making boundaries, separations, edges, and limits. For the first time, a man could organize his geography and the things in it. He could keep things in and keep things out. He could contain his livestock, defend himself with barriers, and define his territory.

This e-handbook concerns itself principally with the practical aspects of fences. Basic indoor planning steps and an equal number of outdoor planning steps are needed to keep you away from mistakes or miscalculations in building a fence. Chapters in this e-handbook include:

How to Plan Ahead

How to Construct a Legal Fence

How to Avoid Fence Post Problems

How to Choose the Right Type of Fence

How to Select the Right Tools

How to Use the Best Construction Technique

How to Construct Workable Gates

How to Build Safely

A must-have reference for anyone wanting to build a fence. 35 pages.

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You don't have to be a master carpenter to make the wood furniture projects in this e-handbook. Step-by-step instructions and illustrations show you how to build a small table for your hallway, an Adirondack chair or a picnic set for enjoyable outdoor living. Only simple hand tools are needed to complete these simple projects. Other projects include:

Wall Shelf

Small Bench

Pump Lamp

Step Stool

Storage Box

You'll enjoy the furniture you build, and get even deeper satisfaction from having built it yourself. 37 pages.

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If you're looking to buy an old house to fix up, this e-handbook helps you look beyond the romance and whimsy of an old house to determine, realistically, what is likely to go wrong and what it would take to make the house livable.

With this valuable resource, you can learn to tell if a foundation is sound, the plumbing works, or the kitchen needs remodeling. Seek an expert opinion when you've decided you really want a particular house but aren't sure about a particular feature. 35 pages.

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Discover the wonders of wind power! With growing concerns about climate change, pollution and the rising costs of fossil fuels, today there's more demand for clean, renewable energy than ever before. Wind power has enormous potential to meet that need, but what does that mean to you and your community?

Wondering what it would cost to put a turbine on your property? This guide tells you how to find out. Want to learn more about how communities can produce their own clean, price-stable power? This guide explains the great potential of local wind projects. How to Choose Wind Power will help you understand how wind turbines can be good choices for homeowners, farmers, small businesses and rural communities.

Learn from detailed case studies and explanations of issues such as net metering, battery storage, types of turbines, concerns about noise, impact on wildlife and more. Find out how to evaluate your wind resource and what factors make a wind project successful.

Mother Earth News has been writing about renewable energy for more than 30 years. Our brand new, completely up-to-date guide was developed in partnership with the International Center for Appropriate and Sustainable Technology. This guide will help you understand the big picture of wind power, and the potential of wind projects big and small as a sustainable source of energy. Order your copy and start learning more about wind power today!

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If dampness or even occasional flooding is preventing you from enjoying your basement, this e-handbook will help you identify the source and cause of the moisture and will describe specific remedial action you can take.

This resource guide takes you through problem-solving solutions to different leakage scenarios, materials and instructions needed to correct leakage problems and moisture capacity of various types of soil. Chapters include:

What Are Your Plans for the Basement?

Where Does the Water Come From?

How Does the Water Get Inside?

Severe Water Problems: When Does It Leak?

Poor Drainage: What Causes It?

Whether you use your basement as additional living, working or storage space, this handy resource will help you keep it dry. 26 pages.

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There is nothing more satisfying than using a good tool in top condition, and a fast-cutting axe or a sweet-running chain saw is perhaps the best example. Even the best axe must have a little loving care. Born sharp as any cutting tool must be, it must stay sharp. A dull axe is a dangerous axe in addition to being one of the most ineffective of tools.

This e-handbook shows you how to keep your axes and saws in good condition for years of use, what safety gear to use and a list of selected firewood. This list includes hardwoods, softwoods, how well these woods split and the amount of smoke they emit. Chapters in this e-handbook include:

Axes

Bow Saws

Chain saws

Characteristics of Selected Fire Wood

A great resource for proper maintenance tips on axes, bow and chain saws. 34 pages.

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As the demand for renewable resources such as trees escalates, and as rules for taking wood out of government land get stricter, the forest industry predicts that it is going to turn more to the small woodlot owner for forest products.

This e-handbook helps you identify tree species, which trees to select, how to properly and safely cut down a tree and how to dry the wood. It also gives information on selling your wood, managing your timberland for wildlife and where to get free assistance. 35 pages.

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Making jams, jellies, marmalades, and other fruit spreads transforms the bounty of the harvest into beautiful rows of jars full of delicacies that last right into the leanest days of winter.

This e-handbook teaches you how to turn fresh fruits into endlessly satisfying spreads. You will learn the basics such as types of sweetened jarred fruit and the terms used to describe them what ingredients and equipment is needed, how to prepare jars and lids and filling and sealing containers. Also included are mouth-watering recipes for blackberry preserves, spiced peach jam, blueberry marmalade, grape jelly, apple butter and more! 32 pages.

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